Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9820698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gail M Gerhart (corresponding author), Gail Gerhart |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 157 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Economic change and political liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jennifer A Widner, 1994 |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20047279 |
| OpenAlex | W2051854773 |
| Language | EN |
In 1989, following the beginning of democratization in Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, a wave of political liberalization swept countries south of the Sahara. In Economic and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Jennifer Widner brings together a distinguished group of scholars to examine the reasons for these tentative steps toward democracy in a context of poverty, highlighting the effects of economic crisis on demands for political reform. Combining broadly comparative, theoretical chapters with important case studies that offer new hypotheses for consideration, the book seeks to establish the nature of the relationship between the economic challenges of the 1980s and the steps toward greater political openness taken by governments at the end of that decade. Cases include Benin, the first African country to engage in political liberation in this period, as well as Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana and Cameroon
Development economics · Economic liberalization · Economic system · Economics · Liberalization · Market economy · Political change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · International Development and Aid
Disempowering new Democracies and the Persistence of Poverty
Institutions and Democratic Citizenship
Cultural Narratives, Violence, and Mother-Son Loyalty
From Berlin 1884 to 1989
From Prebendalism to Predation
The impact of political liberalisation and democratisation on ethnic conflict in Africa
From 'warlord' to 'democratic' president
Cameroon's Democratic Crossroads, 1990-4
How does neopatrimonialism affect the African state's revenues? The case of tax collection in Zambia
Building democracy from below
The Pluralist Paradox
Understanding Democratic Survival and Democratic Failure in Africa
Foreign Economic Liberalization and Peace
Manyu youths, belonging and the antinomies of patrimonial elite politics in contemporary Cameroon
Minority Languages in Dictatorships
Beyond Patronage
Democracy and the politics of power alternation in Africa
Understanding variations in party bans in Africa
Measuring and comparing party ideology in nonindustrialized societies
Ofwaves Andripples
When Does Oil Harm Child Mortality
The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions
Top-Down Democratization in Tanzania
Between Middlemen and Interlopers
Parents, Private Schools, and the Politics of an Emerging Civil Society in Cameroon
Cameroon's Neopatrimonial dilemma
The impact of diamonds on economic growth, adverse regime change, and democratic state-building in Africa
Patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism
Capital and Opposition in Africa
Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa
Perspectives on participation in economic policy reform in Africa
Institution-building, not nation-building
Revisiting the Resource Curse
The emergence of civil society organizations in South Africa
Divergent Paths of Development
Can the Expansion of Social Protection bring about Social Transformation in African Countries? The Case of Zambia
Foreign Aid and Democracy Promotion
The contradictions of neo‐liberal democracy
The Impact of Multi-Party Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reducing postconflict coup risk
Did Aid Promote Democracy in Africa? The Role of Technical Assistance in Africa’s Transitions
The Politics of Liberalizing Zambia’s Maize Markets
The Political Economy of Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sustaining economic reform under political liberalization in Africa
Exchange rate, fiscal and agricultural policies in Africa
The study of political transitions in Africa
Understanding African politics
The World Bank's Fundamental Misconception in Africa
Performing power, composing culture
Liberalização política e democratização na África
Comparative Democratization
Economic Conditions and Incumbent Support in Africa's New Democracies
Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa
Political Participation in a New Democracy
The Rise of the Migration-Development Nexus in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2010
Two Leadership Styles and Patterns of Political Liberalization
Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa
Civilianizing Military Rule
Transition without Rupture
Foreign Aid and Democratization
"Neopatrimonialism" and Agricultural Development in Africa
This Is Not Our Culture! Discourse of Nostalgia and Narratives of Health Concerns in Post-Socialist Tanzania
Being of 'One Heart
Welcoming the 'Fon of Fons
Parties or Portfolio? The Economic Consequences of Africa’s Big Cabinets
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
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